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Apple Culture in Victoria. 



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back to a reasonable length, fruit bud anrl spur development is en- 

 couraged in a more suitable position in relation to the leader. 



Plate 56 shows a series of eight laterals of the types which usually 

 appear on trees, the pruning of which has been neglected, or imperfectly 

 peformed. Although the renovation by pruning essential to trees in this 

 condition invariably presents an insurmountable task to the inexperienced 



Plate 57. — Four Jonathan laterals showing necessity for shortening hack. 



frui(;-grower, yet, when taken in hand by a scientific pruner, with a 

 thorough knowledge of the habit of growth of the variety to be pruned, 

 its treatment becomes a comparatively simple proposition. 



Fig. 1 is a two-year-old lateral which extended to (a) the first year. 

 During the second year, it fruited on the tenninal bud, and produced the 

 two light twigs which appear above that point.' To reduce this growth 

 to a reasonable length, and encourage the development of spurs near its 



